/// Could you please elaborate how manas being sankalpa-vikalpAtmaka // Read carefully the srIsUktArtha chandrika for the rik "Ananda-kardamaschaiva chikleeta vasa mE grihE...... shriyaM vAsaya mE kulE". BTW, dEvi is antaHkaraNa rUpa and hence the Durga Ashtottara says: "manO-buddhi-chitta-ahaMkArA chitta-rUpa chitA chitiH" sriram